Economy

Fiscal Responsibility Summit: A Who's Who

The White House "Fiscal Responsibility Summit" gets under way today for a marathon session on long-term budget-busters such as Social Security, Medicare, federal purchasing and tax policy.

The session, our colleagues Ceci Connolly and Lori Montgomery report, is intended in part to counter Republican criticism that the new administration's costly response to the economic crisis is needlessly pushing the country deeper into debt.

The bipartisan meeting features five topic-specific breakout sessions, and will include lawmakers, economists and a range of special interest leaders. A full list of the attendees and breakout group moderators, as provided by the White House, follows.

Other Members (in alphabetical order with Chairs and Ranking Members noted)
The Honorable Joe Barton (R), Ranking Member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce
The Honorable Allen Boyd (D)
The Honorable Dave Camp (R), Ranking Member of the Committee on Ways and Means
The Honorable Michael N. Castle (R)
The Honorable Raúl M. Grijalva (D)
The Honorable Darrell E. Issa (R), Ranking Member the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
The Honorable Ron Kind (D)
The Honorable Barbara Lee (D), Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus,
The Honorable Jim Matheson (D)
The Honorable George Miller (D), Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor
The Honorable David R. Obey (D), Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations
The Honorable David E. Price (D) - late arrival - approx 1:30/2:00 PM
The Honorable Tom Price (R), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee
The Honorable Charles B. Rangel (D), Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means
The Honorable Paul Ryan (R), Ranking Member of the Committee on the Budget
The Honorable Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D), Chairwoman of the Blue Dog Coalition
The Honorable John M. Spratt (D), Chairman of Committee on the Budget
The Honorable John S. Tanner (D)
The Honorable Ellen O. Tauscher (D)
The Honorable Edolphus Towns (D), Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
The Honorable Nydia M. Velazquez (D), Chairwoman of the Committee on Small Business
The Honorable Henry A. Waxman (D), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce

Comments

Bet the Republicans will howl like a dog whose tail has been stepped on when Obama raises taxes on the most influential constituency of the Republican Party. You can forget any thoughts of the importance of deficits. They will return to the Cheney mantra "Deficits don't matter."

Though I doubt I would agree with much of what Cornell 1984 writes, I will agree that Rangel is a disgusting politician and a drag on the integrity of our government. He was not put in there by Obama and when Rangel had a choice he chose Clinton over Obama. Rangel knows people of integrity and he avoids them whenever possible.

Posted by: Gator-ron | February 23, 2009 6:48 PM

all politicians hang aroung thugs and tax evaders

Posted by: TheBabeNemo | February 23, 2009 5:40 PM

Do you think they can discuss why our stimulus money included $200 million for old people in the PHillippines?

Can anyone believe Charles Rangel is Obama's go-to man? What an embarrassment! Does Obama have a policy to only hang aroung thugs and tax evaders?

Posted by: Cornell1984 | February 23, 2009 5:28 PM

It strikes me that POTUS is taking a small step down the road to what he would like to see:

*driving Congress into a corral marked fiscal sanity on the theory that in foreign affairs he who has little cash in his pocket is not worth talking to.

* as to the military it is essential to persuade to get them to understand that their glory days of presenting THEIR version of a budget. No easy feat. The problem he faces is how to administer great cuts while at the same time persuading the American public that his cuts are are desperately needed. No easy feat.

*health is the Gordian Knot nothing less than the wielding of a great sword will clean it up. POTUS seeks by this "summit", and other measures, to be speaking to two groups -- the voting public on one side and the military on he oher.

Posted by: dajewell | February 23, 2009 4:14 PM

i want them to talk about raising the minimum wage.

the root causes must be addressed

Posted by: TheBabeNemo | February 23, 2009 3:56 PM

There can be no fiscal responsibility when American bread-earners are unjustly "targeted" and destroyed by "multi-agency action programs of personal destruction."

Perfect timing should have been BEFORE THE VOTE, allowing this body of congressional voters to consider how the taxpaying voters would--or wouldn't--be served.

So, this will wind up being a "how we'll spend their money" session.

Posted by: freemarketer | February 23, 2009 3:03 PM

senate made sure all branches of the military got money.
that is the bulk of the 480 pages senate added on.

looks like we will have war for a long time.

Posted by: TheBabeNemo | February 23, 2009 2:38 PM

Yes, I've seen www.recovery.gov (Biden mistakenly said .com ; )

For me, it would be useless to "track" dumping BILLIONS into the Pacific Ocean -- HR1 should never have been passed / signed in the first place -- hopefully, someone sues to keep the most wasteful parts from being implemented.

Posted by: JakeD | February 23, 2009 2:20 PM

well jakey, this summit is to make sure we do HR1 right.

i want to be on the Procurement one with Rahm.....

have you been to recovery.gov yet?
that is for the public to track.

Posted by: TheBabeNemo | February 23, 2009 2:13 PM

Too bad Obama didn't think about "Fiscal Responsibility" BEFORE he wasted another TRILLION DOLLARES by signing that $787 billion bill and committing another $225 billion to bail out people who couldn't afford and shouldn't have bought houses in the first place.